A 2-hour interview with President Traian Basescu on Realitatea TV station, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 A.C. Hosts: Robert Turcescu and Emil Hurezeanu. From 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m. A useless show. Uselessly gifted journalists, that is unable to ask questions. A useless, powerless, unimaginative and pointless character. A President who can do no more than speak. And his accent is visibly Russian.
Traian Basescu is a worn out President. In 2-hour prime time he could have said all he wanted to, if he had something to say. But he proved he didn't. It is only during electoral demonstrations that he feels at ease. When in his President armchair, he manages to do one thing only: break the Constitution a little, to quote the Constitutional Court. He did it by offending parties, officials, press and parliamentarians.
No news: assail against PM Tariceanu, critique of the parliamentary majority, stigmatization of Liberal Bogdan Olteanu, speaker for the Chamber of Deputies. Not even today has the President apologized for calling Olteanu "a villain" in a Pro TV show. Disdain for the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), the main party in the opposition, advertising for Viorel Hrebenciuc and Verestoy Attila.
I could see a tired and bitter President lacking resource. I think he was a bore to everybody. He no longer developed on corruption, the favorite topic of Romanians fond of God's whip. But he criticized the mechanism of representative democracy, the negotiating, which he called "complicity", and belittled the role of the press in democracy, taking the press for a parasite on politicians.
What President Basescu actually did was express the very same message again: He is the right man for governing the country through a government of Democrats, with a puppet-PM and parliamentary majority of the single party kind. He made a mistake when talking about the Democrat's ascent to the government and said "I would govern..." He is certainly relying on Romanians' wish for a new Ceausescu, but one "to give" them more money.
And President Basescu dropped a brick when analyzing the new pension law because: 1. The MPs voted for it unanimously. 2. He isn't brave enough to say 'veto' at the promulgation, but he is threatening he will ask the resources should be specified, which he can do only if returning the law to the Parliament, which he won't dare do. It would be like penalty for himself and populism for the Parliament.
President Basescu criticized other people for what he appreciates in himself: backstage plotting. What a pity that his elite hosts didn't fire questions! They should have taken up issues such as the following: the phone calls from Daniel Morar, head of the National Anti-Corruption Department, prosecutor Tulus's interest in the way a senator, even if Verestoy, voted. Why did he criticize PM Tariceanu for having informed him about the judiciary abuse of prosecutors in the case of Patriciu, since he showed presidential sympathy for Paszkany, the man in Cluj, for the latter had informed him in a similar case ? More issues: the records illegally taken from the archive of the Information and Protection Department in the Ministry of Defense and the house, supposed to be returned to the rightful owners after having been confiscated by the Communists, now inhabited by the parents of justice-maker Monica Macovei, the house on Mihaileanu Street, the parking area belonging to Dorin Cosos, Casuneanu's business with the concrete pavement, the cheap and good electricity of his brother Mircea Basescu, the thousands of Euro his daughters get every month from contracts on the city lights, the Anvers record, the 13 Presidency advisers who resigned, the presidential sanctions against Antena 3 TV station and more. And in the end there is an announcement for you: did the press not made President Basescu popular, President Basescu wouldn't exist.
Roxana Iordache
Ziua Joi 05 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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